Manual for Training Police on Anti Human Trafficking

<strong>Manual</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Training</strong> <strong>Police</strong> on Anti Human Trafficking 18
Activity
1. Hand out the case study.
CASE STUDY HAND OUT 5
June 6, 2007
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Meena discovered she had been sold by her boss while riding in an
auto-rickshaw headed to New Delhi’s red-light district. The 12-year-old was working as a
domestic servant in Calcutta when the homeowner told her about a good-paying job at his
sister’s house in India’s capital. But instead, she was sold to a brothel owner and <strong>for</strong>ced into
prostitution <strong>for</strong> little more than a place to sleep and the occasional meal. Her ordeal lasted
four years and Meena, now 21, says it left her “a very angry person.” ”The anger comes
suddenly,” says Meena, who asked that her full name not be used because of the stigma
associated with her past. Meena’s childhood be<strong>for</strong>e being sold into prostitution was filled
with long days of domestic work in the rural eastern state of Jharkhand. She received little
or no pay, she said, but “I was so poor, I could not leave.” At the urging of her mother, she
moved to Calcutta <strong>for</strong> what she was told would be a paid maid’s position. When her boss then
sent her to New Delhi, Meena never found out the price she was bought <strong>for</strong> on the human
trafficking market. She was rescued from the brothel by STOP, an anti-trafficking group
founded in 1998. She lives in the group’s shelter on the western edge of New Delhi, a large
two-storey white house with long hallways situated amid the farm fields that spread out
from the city’s edge. There are vegetable gardens, and the women who live there embroider
and cook <strong>for</strong> each other.
2. Ask the participants to go through it and point out all the elements of trafficking that they are
able to identify.
3. List them against each of the following points:
Acts or attempted acts of:
Recruitment
Many trafficking cases involve a process of recruitment through agencies that organize and
“facilitate” the process of travel from one place to another. Some agencies are legitimate, while
others use deceit to recruit persons <strong>for</strong> the purposes of trafficking. (In this case study, e.g. Meena’s
boss or the homeowner)
Transportation across borders
Although it is not necessary that movement should take place <strong>for</strong> it to be called trafficking,
sometimes trafficking may involve some <strong>for</strong>m of physical movement or transportation. The movement
can occur between different states, but can also occur without the crossing of state borders. In
either case, the victims are moved to an unfamiliar place, far from home and under the control of
the traffickers. (Meena is brought from Calcutta to Delhi)
Through legal or illegal channels of migration
Trafficking can occur whether people are moved by legal or illegal means. Trafficking often happens
to migrants who have come to a new place/state legally, but had been deceived and had not
agreed to the conditions of work.
Purchase, sale, transfer, receipt or harbouring of a person
Traffickers use one or more of these actions when they move the trafficked person from the place
of origin to the place of destination. (Meena is sold by her boss)